Lovesick
By: Angeles Mastretta ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Contributors: Peden, Margaret Sayers
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781573220620
Subjects: Social conditions; Fiction
Work titles: Mal de amores
Description: "Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this romance knits the passion of a strong, independent woman into the history of a country, much in the manner of the 19th-century costumbrista tradition. Which of two men and their opposing paths will she choose?  Peden's seamless translation of the richly detailed prose make for a page-turner. In its first publication under the title Mal de amores (1996), work was awarded the 1997 Rómulo Gallegos international prize for fiction"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Also issued online.